Game of Thrones - 5x8 "Hardhome" REACTION 

That was a Valerian steel sword John used "Long Claw" to kill the White Walker. You just met the leader of the WW'S. THE NIGHT KING.

Jon's sword is made of Valyrian steel, which can apparently kill the proper White Walkers. I squealed when I first saw this scene, because it was the first time the White Walker's weakness to Valyrian steel was confirmed.

The skeleton soldiers are "wights" and their leaders are the "white walkers". Great reaction!

This episode was directed by Miguel Sapochnik, he's a very talented director and behind episodes 5-7, 5-8, 6-9, 6-10, 8-3,8-5. He will also be one of the showrunners for the House of the Dragon prequel series!

That sword was given to John by Lord commander Mormont in 1st season. They can't make more swords because they don't know how to make Valerian steel. Most of these swords have been in families for hundreds and hundreds of years and passed down from father to son.

This is my favorite episode! The build up to the White Walkers and we finally get see them! 18:38 I have seen many many reactions and y'all are the first to recognize that Jon gets the wind knocked out of him! Reactors usually get annoyed that he isn't moving fast and falling over and I always think, "you've clearly never had the wind knocked out of you cause it is ROUGH."

I love the moment when the Night King slowly raises his arms while staring down Jon Snow. I know this is how he raises the dead, but it kinda looks like he's saying to Jon "that's right, whatcha gonna do about it, bitch?"

Kendall: "Jon's speech to the Wildlings, very good." But Jon's explanation of Mance Rayder's death, very, very bad. Good thing he brought along the diplomatic skills of Tormund! He was useful twice in this episode!😂

"Oh my sweet summer child what do you know about fear? Fear is for the winter when the snows fall a hundred feet deep and the ice wind comes howling out of the north. Fear is for the long night, when the sun hides its face for years at a time, and little children are born and live and die all in darkness...." 🥶 What the second half of five does best is portraying that feeling of airtight hopelesness. It's demoralizing but addictive at the same time. Hardhome is nuts.

I love how y’all pay attention to the nuance of the direction. Notice how the same wide angle shot they show of John sailing into the harbor at the beginning of that scene is the same angle they show of him sailing out of the harbor. Except in the last shot everyone on the harbor is dead. Brilliant direction.

When Jon holds Longclaw in the air and yells "Night's Watch With Me!" as the handful of Brothers in Black run to the other direction of the retreating gray masses; that freeze frame moment leading up to the Valyrian Steel revelation; and the ending with the Night King slowly walking through that creeking plank. Those are the three shots I live for. The cinematography is impeccable. It's emotive and ominous. This one's up there with the top episodes.

I love that the White Walkers screech and yell when they kill but when they are resurrected at the end they're just silent staring at Jon.

When I first saw this episode, the only thing I could say was. . . "We're dead."

The White Walkers are the ones that come for the babies and the ones that ride horses, We saw a baby being turned into one last season. The dead bodies, or soldiers, that are turned are called wights.

Hardhome is one of my favorite episodes of the series. For the ambience alone if nothing else, and the slow anxiety it induces. That dark and desolate snowy panorama throughout the evacuation always gets me jittery. The environment feels very "Othery", pun intended. This seems like a continuation of the darkness of the recent episodes. As I said last time, Winterfell and beyond the wall just feels like a dystopian fairy tale inverted on its head right now, mesmerizing in its eerie silence.

19:12 That sword is Valyrian steel and it was passed onto Jon Snow from the previous Lord Commander Mormont. Definitely one of the best moments in this series.

This episode was critically acclaimed and I absolutely love it because I love the gloom & doom undertone of the battle, Sapochnick's direction is very different from the previous battles. Episodes like Hardhome is why this season won an unprecedented number of Emmys and was resching peak viewership, it's why I love 5 despite the next two episodes that many seem to have a huge problem with. "Wicked Games" is the perfect theme for this season. Nothing with something as brilliant as hardhome in it should be considered a net negative in any logical way!

“They call Jon pretty all the time” lol yes I love how everyone has to say it out loud. Man is gorgeous.

The dynamic between Dany and Tyrion here, the talk they have about their fathers, Varys, the two families' intertwined past, the ruling elite and breaking the wheel, all of it is very engaging. The walkers appearing on top of that foggy hill like the four horsemen of apocalpyse >>>

The Nights King in the books was the 13th Lord Commander of the Nights Watch. In the book, " A Storm of Swords ", Old Nan told the story of the Nights King and that he was an Ancient Stark. He was possibly the younger brother of Brandon the Breaker Stark, King of the North.

The guy you said "that guy just got promoted" is, and always has been, the night king. The other guy Jon killed was just a white walker general, not the leader or king.

The dull, colorless fatalism of hardhome is straight up unnerving. The "shield that guards the realms of men" finally comes face to face with Death itself. What an excellent episode!

Great episode. Still holds up in terms of excitement and seeing that fabled threat is a real threat.

Only the blue demonic looking creatures are White Walkers. Their touch brings dead humans back to life. Which is what most of those things attacking were, undead humans called "wights". Depending on how long the human has been dead when he was brought back, their bodies are at different stages of decomposition. Those who've died recently are still flesh, those who've been dead for a long time are skeletons. Jon's sword is made of Valyrian Steel, one of the last few left in the seven kingdoms, as Jeor Mormont said way back in S1 when he gave it to Jon. One of the other Valyrian swords was Ned's sword Ice, which Tywin broke into two and gave to Joffrey and Jaime and which Jaime gave to Brienne. So Brienne has one now.

The White Walkers are basically ice wizards, they reanimate the corpses and skeletons to fight in their army.

The White Walker with the spikey hair, like a crown, is the head white walker. He is the one who turned the babies into white walkers to grow to be his generals as you called them.

Listen, even in Game of Thrones they HAVE to acknowledge how pretty Kit Harrington is.

What I love is some wildlings would rather freeze to death in the water than die to a wight

When has anyone ever said that season 5 is their favorite?

My favorite episode of the show. This was when Jon knew he was well and truly screwed. So in the books, the White Walkers are the generals - the guys on horseback. The random dead are Wights. Their leader is known as the Night King. They simplified it for the show, lumping all but the Night King into the "White Walker" name. The sword was given to Jon by the former leader of the Night's Watch. It's valyrian steel.

Jon Snow's sword is made of Valyrian steel: forged by Dragons in Valyria

The thing I'll say about the show ending is that watching it in real time was hard due to spoiled season leaks and then the build up. But I will say after seeing the whole season and then rewatching the whole series through rewatches it is more enjoyable and I def think they way it was ended was correct. I think you guys watching it faster than having to wait years for it will def be helpfull.

One of the best got episodes of any season

Fyi: the Army of the Dead consists of White Walkers and wights (pronounced like the color white). The wights are the majority of the Army, the corpses with the pale blue eyes. The White Walkers are the ones that Jon killed. Oh yeah, Valyrian steel is key in the Great War. This was the episode that made many of us realize that the Night King, that dude’s name, is the real enemy.

Your zombies/ skeletons are called wights. The generals are white walkers and the one who rules then is the Night King.

We didn't wait 8 years for 8 seasons, we waited 10 years for 8 seasons lol.

Lmao your expressions when time slows down as the White Walker approaches Jon and finally the look in your eyes 👀 when Jon's sword connects....that is why I love watching reaction videos 😂😂😂. This is phenomenal, both the ep. and the reaction!

Tyrion dropped some gems on Dany 🔥. Jon better be glad he had Tormond with him, even if the Wildlings let him through, they wouldve torn him apart. His explanation of Manz's death was so poor imo. Great episode and reaction y'all 🙏🏾👍🏽🔥

The bones and zombies you see walking called wights…the ice people are white walkers

This episode is one of my favorites because it so elegantly lays out how hopeless the battle against the white walkers is. Jon's army of the living need to be convinced to follow against their prejudices and their resentments. Even with a good pitch to fight for the future he could still only convince a small portion to join him. All the Night King needs to do is raise his hands. Chilling ending.

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They basically doubled with all those wildlings beyond the fence

Back in the day it’s normal to kill a man over respect , that’s why all the wildlings stood and watched lord of bones head smashed to bits

I was literally just scrolling through my subscribed page then I saw you guys reacted to heart home and I was like yep I’m stopping what I’m doing I’m watching this lol

The guy who is sitting on a next to walkers generals. with stpikies on his head like a crown is the Night King the one that made most of the White Walkers and wights the things that lookes like zombies ❤❤

The highlight of season 5.

When you think back to when Lord Commander Mormont was talking to John...he asked him "do you think it matters who sits on the iron throne when the dead come for us?"...this just shows how very little all the arguing and politics in King's Landing actually matter in the end. The dead are coming for everyone...

wait, there are people saying season 5 is their favorite?

damn, this show never lets up

Chicago is the best city. We see you fam.

Wights look different depending on how long they have been dead. The oldest ones have just the bones left.

the night king has always be the boss. THe white wolker who was killed by John was one of his leutenents.

You saw the Night King for the first time in S4E4. And you saw wights (aka "army of the dead") that look like the skeleton zombies in S4E10 with Bran at the tree (in S1 & S2 they looked more fleshy). Maybe you should re-watch season 4? I feel like maybe waiting super long between episodes makes people forget more easily.

The knight king is the only original white walker and he is literally thousands of years old but all of the men you see with him including the one John killed were all made from his power and you’ll see how that happens later if I remember correctly. So in a way they’re almost all his sons And Jon killed one so you can imagine he’s not too happy about that.

16:28 that’s war for ya

I'm not the biggest fan of GoT, especially the later seasons, including season 5. I think there are a lot of missteps, a lot of producer self indulgence, and they start to diverge more and more from the books. All that being said, you have to give the devil his due; "Hardhome" is just about a perfect episode. In a single hour the cover 4 major plot points: Tyrion/Jorah/Denerys, Arya and the Faceless Men, Cersei vs the cast of Ted Lasso, and Jon at Hardhome plus two lesser scene in the Bolton war council and Sansa/Theon. Each of the first three are handled quickly, but don't feel rushed. Theirs plenty of time for dialogue and for innuendo and teasing foreshadows, then quickly on to the next. Hardhome itself introduces new characters, efficiently gets the audience at least basically to feel for them, covers the necessary diplomatic ground between the Nights Watch and the Wildlings, THEN launches into the action set-piece of the Battle of Hardhome which starts out as a massive action sequence before devolving into essentially a horror sequence, and ending with the real introduction of the Night King when he raises all his wights. All of that ground covered in 1 hour 1 minute without feeling rushed and without any major drops or flaws. Unless I misremember, this is the highest rated episode. For some Trivia, they exhausted the shows budget with this episode and had to go to HBO and ask for more money.

Keep an open mind & you won't be disappointed. Some of the best episodes ( & the best season in my book) of the whole series is coming in the next few seasons. Keep reading sour grape comments from those who represent a small minority of GOT viewers & they will attempt to manipulate your view, close them out. The Books (Next chapter not completed in 10+ years) & the show are 2 different things. The show is considered the 2nd best TV show ever on IMDB. I have watched you guys for a long time now, big GOT fan. I'm here for the dimples now.

ah yes

PLLLEEEAAASSSEEE react to Walking Dead :). Also, I've been WAITING for ya'll to watch this episode...Great reaction!

Ned's sword was was Valerian steel.

This was one of your best reacts yet. I can't wait for your next video!

cellphone in hands = -1

Sooo you’re saying we could get Walking Dead reactions??? 😏😏😏

Please react to the netflix fantasy series - Shadow and Bone. It's really good and season 2 will be aired this year as well. Thank you!

amazing reaction to a harrowing episode... love it!

Best bit of this reaction is at 0:50 ; Bukola wondering silently "What am I doing here? What am I doing with my life?" for a full five seconds.

Imagine watching this 10/10 episode and trying to dunk on this amazing shit with a straight face so you don't lose your Asoiaf cool points. This right here is better than the series finale of most shows. These people had to have their faces so far up GRRM's ass you can taste what he had for breakfast. To purists it's almost as if GRRM's greatness cannot be established unless you go out of your way to shit on everything else. I've seen toxic fandoms, but the pettiness and sycophancy of the r/freefolks type Asoiaf purists hellbent on discrediting even all the good stuff is next level psychotic.

Try to react bahubali

I started watching with season 5 I think. You guys watching it straight through like this and knowing how people reacted to the end is a way different experience. Just enjoy it for yourself though. It was a fun show.

So lost

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the poor and absolutely lost quality of season 5 has seemed to lose you guys completely. starting here and thru the end of 6 there are several of the greatest moments and episodes of the show's entire run. as far as the white walkers, they are the humanoid ice monster guys. the zombies are 'wights', they're just dead bodies resurrected and controlled by the white walkers. Jon's sword is an extremely rare and magically forged kind of metal called Valyrian steel (Valyria was a magical place where the dragons and Targaryens came from) - other swords made of this were Ned's big execution sword (which Ned used in the pilot to execute the deserter, and which was used against Ned to execute him - which Tywin in season 4's opener melted down into two smaller swords, one given to Joffrey, the other to Jaime who gave it to Brienne) and the dagger used in season 1 to try to assassinate Bran while he slept. Wights/zombies can be killed by fire. The white walkers can be killed by dragonglass like Sam used (the black rock, obsidian), or Valyrian steel, both of which are magically made.

what ever happened to the cute white girl?

Honestly, just stop watching this show by the end of the next season 🤣 do all yourselves a favor. Just a friendly warning

that "heavier girl" checking her phone during battle of Hardhome smh,women stuff,unworthy of watching complex show like Game of Thrones...